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This season, we celebrate the moving work of our Feature, artist Kyong Boon Oh! Experience "Walk the Path," a process of self-reflection and self-discovery through #sculpture. Read her meditative process: theoffingmag.com/art/kyong-b…
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"#The pelicans inside our rib cages feel #the math before they precess inward, #beat their wings, say, import numpy as np import math" Read "N-Body Setup" by @racetosomewhere theoffingmag.com/backoftheen…
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"Dear Frog, Remember when we searched for the ladle of the Big Dipper and the pelicans swooped under the night? In my poem, the birds are ellipses obscuring stars, planets, and clusters of galaxies." Read "Frog and Toad are Friends" by @racetosomewhere theoffingmag.com/backoftheen…
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"Well instead of wars, we should just do capture the flag. No more wars... Just capture the flag." Read "Home" by Brooke Emily theoffingmag.com/art/comics/…
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"This place: this place is a shit show. It's beautiful too." Read "Home" by Brooke Emily theoffingmag.com/art/comics/…
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"You’d think you wouldn’t be able to take a bite of raw flesh, but it’s only because your mind stops you from biting hard enough. If you believe you can, if you really want to, you can eat anything." Read "Foreigner" by @fiazswan theoffingmag.com/fiction/for…
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"We may be born with a similar innocence, but it can never be preserved like in an animal. This is why there’s no real guilt to feel for eating another person..." Read "Foreigner" by @fiazswan theoffingmag.com/fiction/for…
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"these fingernails are beds for what once were their mouths biting down to hold against the wind" Read "older than woven" by nicole v basta theoffingmag.com/micro/older…
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"the word empathy is a boot on the lowback of an ancestor my spine curved, facedown the dirt, a window" Read "older than woven" by nicole v basta Read "older than woven" by nicole v basta theoffingmag.com/micro/older…
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"If you are a pet or horse owner, please press 1. You touched something that was moving, and now everything is watermarked." Read "Contagion" by Duy Đoàn theoffingmag.com/refusal/con…
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"Would you rather ride a horse or a donkey. The horse is smaller than the donkey, but I won’t tell you how big the donkey is." Read "Contagion" by Duy Đoàn theoffingmag.com/refusal/con…
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"Searching for clues on their persistence over the decades alongside their inevitable decay, the stories and people shaped within this space started to reveal themselves." Read "La Memoria de las Paredes" by Paulina Avila theoffingmag.com/art/la-memo…
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"As I documented the walls of the home through my camera, I began questioning their construction and composition." Read "La Memoria de las Paredes" by Paulina Avila theoffingmag.com/art/la-memo…
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"Blue in action was a matter of life or death, and you avoided it at all costs, not jump into it like Chikara unless you wanted to die." Read "Where the Blue Rests" by Norie Suzuki theoffingmag.com/fiction/whe…
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"Blue in action was a matter of life or death, and you avoided it at all costs, not jump into it like Chikara unless you wanted to die." Read "Where the Blue Rests" by Norie Suzuki theoffingmag.com/fiction/whe…
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"I have enemies now and I find it most pleasurable." Read "Flirting In The New Age" by @sfeycreates theoffingmag.com/wit-tea/fli…
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"when someone splinters your blood, a million tías spill out when the gods tire of their stars, they will create
a new galaxy of tía-shaped constellations" Read "Tía-shaped" by @cloudelfina theoffingmag.com/enumerate/t…
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"Hey baby, you seem so harmless. Your energy is sweet, like you won’t do me too much damage." Read "Flirting In The New Age" by @sfeycreates theoffingmag.com/wit-tea/fli…
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"tía Daniela has a Depeche Mode rose tattooed above her ankle tía Hortensia moves from pot to pot across her backyard,
begonias, hibiscus, and gardenias anointed with holy hose water" Read "Tía-shaped" by @cloudelfina theoffingmag.com/enumerate/t…
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"lush velvet of her
voice erupting
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the rumble of thunder
breaking" Read "Insomnia" by Malik Thompson theoffingmag.com/micro/insom…
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"Anita’s song— so much
rapture pouring
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it’s been so long
the night" Read "Insomnia" by Malik Thompson theoffingmag.com/micro/insom…
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